prominent use of the organ. The Klieg lights will be on Itzhak Perlman Fišer, Smetana and Janáček’s haunting In the Mists with Warszynski November 22, as the violin virtuoso turns his warm persona to themes performing five of Liszt’s most popular pieces. Nov 23: Nocturnes in from Casablanca, Cinema Paradiso, Out of Africa and Schindler’s the City also presents Warszynski and Simurdova in works by Chopin, List. In an inspired piece of programming, Peter Oundjian then leads Fisher and Schumann. the TSO in Beethoven’s Symphony No.7, one of the most widely Nov 11: Silver medalist at the 2015 International Chopin Piano heard pieces in movie soundtrack history. Its Allegretto (second Competition, Charles Richard-Hamelin lights up the Aurora Cultural movement) alone has appeared in more than two dozen films, from Centre with an all-Chopin program. Nov. 27: Hamelin is the soloist in Edgar G. Ulmer’s 1934 classic The Black Catto Oscar-winner The Chopin’s Piano Concerto No.1 accompanied by the Niagara Symphony King’s Speech. Orchestra conducted by Bradley Thachuk. Magisterra Soloists. String ensemble Magisterra Soloists, having Nov 13: Chamber Music Hamilton presents the versatile New dipped their collective toes in Toronto’s waters with a Gallery 345 Zealand String Quartet performing Haydn, Grieg and two works by appearance in October, return home to London, Ontario, November 5 their countrymen, Jack Body and Gareth Farr. with “From Rio, with Love,” their first fundraising concert and Nov 13: Amici Chamber Ensemble, augmented by Russian violinist silent auction at the Hassan Law Community Gallery. Along with Ilya Kaler and Russian accordionist Alexander Sevastian, perform Mendelssohn’s brilliant Octet for Strings Op.20, the ensemble will music by Rachmaninoff, Gubaidulina, Stravinsky, Arensky and showcase selections of Brazilian popular music in the wake of their Ustvolskaya in an intriguing program dubbed “Mother Russian: Rebels recent two-week tour of Brazil. One week later, November 12, “A and Exiles.” Concert from the Balkans” in the Chapel at Windermere on the Nov 24: The venerable Women’s Musical Club of Toronto’s latest Mount (1486 Richmond St., London) includes works by Hans Gál concert showcases the talents of Boston Symphony principal (Five Intermezzi for string quartet), Bela Bartók (Duos for two violins) horn, James Sommerville, violinist Scott St. John and pianist Peter and Rudolf Matz (Andante e Allegro for four violins), alongside Longworth in 20th-century French recital works and trios by Brahms Mendelssohn’s Octet. From Gál’s intensely personal and Romantic and Vivian Fung. musical language to Bartók’s joyfully folkloric violin transcriptions, Nov 25: TSO concertmaster Jonathan Crow goes west to perform it’s music that was shaped by the highly diverse cultural and political Bruch’s Violin Concerto No.1 with the Etobicoke Philharmonic influences of early 20th-century southeastern Europe. Orchestra. Nov 26: Iconic composer Philip Glass will be awarded the 11th QUICK PICKS Glenn Gould Prize at an exclusive concert in his honour in Ottawa as Nov 3, 4, 5: Pianist Andrew Burashko, artistic director of the Art the NAC Orchestra led by Dennis Russell Davies performs Glass’ works of Time Ensemble, shows his programming acumen in “That’s Not for chamber ensemble, solo piano and his Symphony No.2. Funny” where he unites the music of funnymen Franz Joseph Haydn, Dec 5: Bassoonist extraordinaire Nadina Mackie Jackson continues trumpeter/bandleader Spike Jones and satirist/songwriter Tom Lehrer. her Bassoon Out Loud series with sonatas by Prokofiev and Skalkottas, Nov 6: Pocket Concerts: Founding member of the critically ably assisted by pianist Stephan Sylvestre. acclaimed Linden String Quartet, Catherine Cosbey, Cecilia String Quartet first violinist, Min-Jeong Koh, founder and artistic director of Paul Ennis is the managing editor of The WholeNote. Pocket Concerts, violist Rory McLeod, and cellist Amy Laing perform selections from Mendelssohn’s String Quartet Op.44 No.1, Schubert’s engaging Quartettsatz and Haydn’s exquisite String Quartet Op.76 No.4 “Sunrise.” Nov 9: The violin-piano Duo Concertante bring their high stan- dards to the music of Haydn, Dallapiccola, Brahms and Franck in their concert presented by the Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber Music Society. Nov 13: K-WCMS’ next presentation, the unusual combination of guitar and flute known as Duo Cavatina, ranges from Bach and Sor to Takemitsu and Piazzolla. Nov 18: The outstanding series continues with Sono Luminus recording artist, Boston-based pianist Michael Lewin in a program that moves from early Beethoven to the exoti- cism of Ginastera, Lecouna and Nazareth before settling into the more familiar Chopin’s Sonata No.3 and Liszt’s Mephisto Waltz. Nov 10: The Royal Conservatory presents “Generation Next,” a concert of risings stars – pianists Alexander Seredenko, Tony Yike Yang and Charles Richard-Hamelin; cello phenom Stéphane Tétreault (whose Koerner Hall debut in April 2015 with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and Orchestre Métropolitain still resonates); and mezzo Emily D’Angelo. Nov 13: Glenn Gould School dean, James Anagnoson, and his piano partner, Leslie Kinton, celebrate their 40th anniversary as Anagnoson & Kinton with a concert in Mazzoleni Hall of works by Brahms, Pierre Gallant, Poulenc and Dvořák topped by Bartók’s seminal Music for Two Pianos and Percussion (the duo is joined by TSO principal timpanists David Kent and TSO principal percus- sionist John Rudolph). Dec 4: Stewart Goodyear’s prodigious program at Koerner Hall includes Bach’s Partita No.5, Beethoven’s Sonata No.32 Op.111, Chopin’s Ballade No.4, selections from Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker and the world premiere of Goodyear’s own Acabris! Acabras! Acabram! Nov 11: At Gallery 345. Mikolaj Warszynski (whose newest CD is reviewed by Alex Baran in this month’s Keyed In column) is joined by fellow pianist Zuzana Simurdova in two of Dvořák’s beguiling Legends and later in an arrangement of Liszt’s triumphal Les Préludes. In between, each takes solo turns with Simurdova playing music by thewholenote.com November 1, 2016 - December 7, 2016 | 17